Your putting practice?

[pokerjoke]

Be honest and tell me how much time you have put into your putting in the last month.

Having struggled recently I have actually done 3 half hour sessions mainly working on keeping my legs rock solid as I was moving them and I felt it was effecting my putting.
If you can imagine when I'm set up I'm trying to get the feeling that my knees are locked by pushing the outside of my knees out at address.
There is definitely less movement than there was.

Read the GM putting pullout today it does make you realise that putting is an art and a game within a game and really needs practicing.

 

[patricks148]

None, only putt on the course at the moment don't even putt before a round.

when i do its 5 footers and inside that, but only just before i go out.

the reason... our practice putting green has way more slopes and is a foot faster than the main greens. i find that a bit of a waste of time TBH

 

[Papas1982]

Be honest and tell me how much time you have put into your putting in the last month.

Having struggled recently I have actually done 3 half hour sessions mainly working on keeping my legs rock solid as I was moving them and I felt it was effecting my putting.
If you can imagine when I'm set up I'm trying to get the feeling that my knees are locked by pushing the outside of my knees out at address.
There is definitely less movement than there was.

Read the GM putting pullout today it does make you realise that putting is an art and a game within a game and really needs practicing.

In the last month since i had lessons. Easily 20 hours.

Had 6 night shifts and in that time i spent so long i got back ache putting from 6 to 12 ft on my mat. Add that to a good 20mins each night before bed and getting on putting greens for 15 mins before each round.

All concentrating on stroke and rhythm.

 

[pokerjoke]

In the last month since i had lessons. Easily 20 hours.

Had 6 night shifts and in that time i spent so long i got back ache putting from 6 to 12 ft on my mat. Add that to a good 20mins each night before bed and getting on putting greens for 15 mins before each round.

All concentrating on stroke and rhythm.

Impressive have you improved and are you sinking more putts.
Any handicap deductions?

 

[Imurg]

5-10 minutes before each round and it's normally longish putts, 20' or more.
Just trying to get the pace right as much as anything else.
Our practice green is pretty similar to the course greens.

 

[Papas1982]

Impressive have you improved and are you sinking more putts.
Any handicap deductions?

Haven't played a comp yet.

But have averaged 5/6 putts less in last 6 rounds than i had in previous and feel it is still a work in progress. Also half those rounds were on proper courses (celtic manor and belfry) which certainly have trickier greens than at home.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

In the last month, about 4 hours. Working mainly on holing 2-3 footers regularly, 5-6 footers and then distance control from 20-30 feet. I use one of these for the short putts (without the inner ring) https://www.amazon.co.uk/PUTT-PUTTING-TRAINING-AID-REDUCER/dp/B000FFYITO

 

[HawkeyeMS]

None, but only as my short game has been in such bad shape and I have been putting in the hours on that.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

50 six footers every day on my astroturf green at my house. Done it religiously since the beginning of December. My stroke is way more consistent now.

 

[J5MBF]

When I go to the range at lunchtimes (1/2 times a week currently) I'll take 3 of my own balls and finish at the putting green. Try and minimum 2 putt everything, if not, restart with the ball I didn't. Balls out the hole, quick chuck up and putt to the next hole. Green is large and has 9 holes so get a decent little session in.

Before a round I putt till I'm confident and I think putting is hugely confidence based. I've always enough time before a round so when I reach the point I'm happy/confident, that'll do. This may be 2 mins before tee off, it may be 15.

 

[Simbo]

Not much as the practice.i e green is still pretty crap condition after winter, no real point in practising on it tbh.
I'll do loads in th summer though.

 

[3565]

I practise a lot around the putting green with chipping and putting. I work on speed control, set up position, and freeing my stroke up by looking at the hole whilst making the stroke and Also Aimpoint reading. I can spend up to 4hrs on the putting green alternating both aspects of the game and dependant on work I can do it 2-3 times a week.

 

[NorfolkShaun]

Try to putt most days at home, got a putt out which helps hone my putting stroke.

Like practice on course but our putting green gets an awful lot of traffic so not the best and difficult to set drills up there.

 

[mcbroon]

Zero. I bought a new putter instead

 

[Wayman]

Our club closes the putting green over the winter so zero. Starting from tonight I'm going to start practicing for the season

 

[PaulyMcK]

The putting green only really opened at the start of this month, I haven't practiced putting much at all apart from 5-10 mins before each round.

Hopefully over the next couple of weeks, I will get more time to practice putting as my stroke is so inconsistent just now and I reckon a good few hours on the putting green will sort it out.

 

[chrisd]

Quite a bit Tony. I have posted before that Jamie Donaldson told me on an Aimpoint course that my putting stroke was excellent tempo, spot on consistancy of the face through strike and, unfortunately "more moving parts than Ben Hogan had in his irons swing"

Now, when I stop my legs from following the putter head I certainly scare the hole more often!

 

[Orikoru]

None, only putt on the course at the moment don't even putt before a round.

when i do its 5 footers and inside that, but only just before i go out.

the reason... our practice putting green has way more slopes and is a foot faster than the main greens. i find that a bit of a waste of time TBH

This was more or less what I was going to say. I rarely practise putting outside of my rounds. Usually I don't find that the practise green represents the course greens very well. At most if I'm a bit early for my teetime I might do ten minutes on the practise green, but usually not.

 

[Chisteve]

I practice a bit when I can

I have set up a practice mat using 2 x 1 m AstroTurf sheets from lidle, have a board with 4 no various size mouse holes cut in it and a dozen balls

I keep records to make it a challenge + sometimes add chalk lines

There is a little bit of break in garage floor also

Helps a bit I think

 

[Capella]

My issues with putting are mostly mental, I think. I do practice relatively regularly, I'd say about a half hour a week on the practice green at the course and about another hour on the putting mat at home. And I sink pretty much every putt I try, or, on the long ones, at least lag them close enough for a tap in. That's why, even when trying different drills and games, I do get bored with it rather quickly and decide I had enough, because it seems to be working just fine. Then I go out on the course and lose all feel for it immediately, especially on the first few holes of a comp. I think it is a combination of nerves getting in the way and, despite all efforts our greenkeepers put in, the practice green still feeling very different to our regular greens, somehow. I have a tendency to overthink and underhit I sometimes feel I'd be better off just smashing them in.